Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 05/30/2018 - 8:49am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
I live well within the border and have flown far south of it. Never have I been to it but we hear about it every day. The border stories resonate far north in Iowa and especially Storm Lake.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 05/23/2018 - 9:00am
Under the current construct, we already are over the limit
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
A rapid and significant expansion in swine facilities here and across Iowa — with unheeded calls in the legislature for a moratorium on more building — causes one to wonder just how much manure we can handle.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 05/16/2018 - 8:53am
Yet he has a hard time getting his message through
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
John Norris is the only gubernatorial candidate who is using Storm Lake as the centerpiece of his campaign. Everywhere he goes, and he goes to rural places first, he talks about how immigration is the future of small towns and county seats.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 05/09/2018 - 8:48am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 05/02/2018 - 9:15am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
We were having lunch Friday with our sister Ann and cousin Mary, who were on their way to visit another cousin doing family history work in the ancestral haunt of Emmetsburg.
“And you know Dad had a child during World War II in Italy,” Ann declared.
John, 68, had just been discussing getting his regular heart checkup at Mayo, and nearly had the Big One right there over a ham sandwich.
“Oh. I thought you knew.”
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/25/2018 - 9:09am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
Josh Merchant is ripping up turf and planting new seeds as he attempts to reinvigorate and repopulate Buena Vista University.
He has a new dean, Brian Lenzmeier, he soon will have a new marketing director and development director. A new head basketball coach is on board. Just last week he told me that BVU will launch majors in agriculture and minors in rural entrepreneurship in hopes of attracting students and building the region.
Submitted by
admin on Wed, 04/18/2018 - 9:08am
I had no inkling that I was a man without honor in my own state until Bill Petroski from The Des Moines Register called last Thursday. I burst out laughing when the veteran reporter told me that a resolution citing me for winning the Pulitzer Prize has been held up by the Republican Senate majority since Feb. 14. Apparently the senators sat around the Bill Dix Memorial Roman Bath and cast their lots against me because we do not like Donald Trump, Steve King, river pollution or secret slush funds involving public officials.
Peach, left, and Peaches.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 9:20am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
Mabel the Newshound has gone to the place where she catches the rabbit every time and where there is a fire hydrant every 10 yards. She went in to have a tooth removed, was put under and never came back out, victim of too big a heart. Our English Setter mix was six and a friend to all except for that one huge dog in Sunset Park who terrified her.
Mabel was the best dog ever, except for Jack who preceded her in eternal reward.
And then came Peach.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 04/04/2018 - 9:06am
What will they want in November?
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 9:21am
EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
BY ART CULLEN
While in Kansas City a few weeks back I hooked up with one of my best buds for life and got into a rip-snorting high-decibel argument about politics before his lovely wife and daughter showed up. We both were sober.
It’s gnawed at me since.
